BC Ministry of Education Standards to certified as a teacher

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BC Ministry of Education Standards to certified as a teacher

The BC ministry of education standards are designed to offer guidance as to what is valued in being certified as a teacher in BC.  This standards or competencies are not prescriptive but rather indicators to address over a career.  Evidence in an ePortfolio that relates to these competencies shows the intent of the person to be a certified teacher in BC.  An artifact can be evidence for more than one competency.  Artifacts in an ePortfolio do not have to address a competency explicitly but in general most evidence in an ePortfolio probably addresses some element of a competency.

Summary of BC standards to be certified as a teacher

Summary of BC standards to be certified as a teacher

The summary of BC teacher standards offers a way of clustering standards into three main areas of knowledge, practice and commitment.  These areas are often the clusters used in teacher standards in other parts of the world offering general thematic ideas used to certify teachers around the world.  Use the these general themes to create pages or collections of pages with artifacts iin and reflections that describe your forming teaching identity and abilities.

This guide offers tags can be added to ePortfolio pages related to the BC ministry standards as required.

The guide below offers a framework to help ePortfolio users to develop a description and reflection on their selected artifacts. Key benefit of the ePortfolio is the space it creates for a user to present, analyze and reflect on a significant experience related to your forming professional identities.

Guide to writing up your description and reflection on an artifact

Assessment criteria for giving feedback to a person creating an ePortfolio entry

Below are criteria statements used to help ePortfolio users learn from reflecting on their ePortfolio entries.  A key aspect in writing up an artifact is to consider the type of audiences the users imagines reading their descriptions and reflections on the ePortfolio entries.  Imagining the audience helps the users describe theit artifacts and why they were selected in a way that will help them realize what they learned and how they can develop their future learning experiences.  Sharing ePortfolio entries allows future readers to gain from the artifact sin a way they will help them develop their understanding of teaching and learning.

Peer developed feedback criteria 2016

Peer developed feedback criteria 2015